PSYA02H3 Lecture : Developmental Psych--Lec 5 (Groups)
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groups: many atrocities that have been committed by people who are a part of mobs/gangs, lynching: murder by a crowd of an individual (hanging, burning, etc. ) 1930: erwin, a black man, was lynched for the rape of a white girl his fingers were pulled, his teeth were pulled, and he was hung by a tree and burned. no one was put to t rial for these crimes. In the south of america, lessons were taught to black men to stay away from white women. post-card were made of the body and mailed to family members and family: frustration-aggression hypothesis have an impulse to aggress. possible contributor might be a general frustration of society (due to economic situations, racial circumstances, etc. ) people need an output and blacks in the south were vulnerable. research shows that as the economy was high in the south, there were less lynchingssocio-economic theory: gustave lebon:
